The No. 19 Florida Gators (14-5, 6-4 SEC) were swept by the No. 10 Arkansas Razorbacks (20-3, 10-1 SEC) 3-0 Sunday afternoon in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center.
The Florida Gators (5-3, 3-2 SEC) lost to the Georgia Bulldogs (7-0, 5-0 SEC) 43-20 Saturday at EverBank Stadium. Georgia’s defense earned four sacks and three turnovers against Florida’s offense, which struggled despite an optimistic first drive.
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The Florida Gators women’s cross country team was united as ever Friday morning in Columbia, South Carolina. Not just by their matching nail sets and Gators face stickers, but also by the program’s first SEC Championship title since 2012.
Florida graduate student middle blocker Anna Dixon announced a season-ending elbow and wrist injury Thursday evening via Instagram.
The Gators (5-2, 3-1 SEC) still control their destiny in the SEC East but will face their biggest test all season against the reigning back-to-back national champion Bulldogs (7-0, 4-0 SEC). Florida is riding a two-game winning streak into the matchup.
I sat down with Owen Warden, the assistant sports editor at the Red & Black, the independent student newspaper at the University of Georgia, to break down the matchup and learn more about the Bulldogs this season.
The Florida Gators (6-5-5, 2-5-3 SEC) drew against South Carolina (11-1-5, 5-1-4 SEC) 0-0 Thursday evening at Donald R. Dizney Stadium. The Gators finished with eight shots but failed to find the breakthrough goal.
The No. 19 Florida Gators (13-4, 5-3 SEC) defeated the Ole Miss Rebels (8-13, 2-8 SEC) 3-0 in Oxford, Mississippi, Wednesday evening.
The Gators teed off Monday at Old Waverly Club in West Point, Mississippi. UF came out victorious in the 12-team tournament. Senior Maisie Filler won back-to-back tournaments as the Gators claimed their third tournament victory of the season.
The Florida Gators caught a breather in their schedule last weekend, but there was no rest in sight. With a well-timed bye week, UF head football coach Billy Napier took the time to gear up for UF’s annual rivalry match against the No.1 Georgia Bulldogs.
Gators gymnast Kayla DiCello became the 2023 Pan American Games all-around champion. She’s the first United States woman to win an all-around gold at the Pan Am Games since 2011.
Six teams were on bye in week seven of the NFL season. However, despite less football, several Gators stepped up in big ways for their teams.
The year is 1993. The Florida Gators opened the season with a dominant 5-0 start and were the No. 4 team in the country before a heartbreaking 38-35 loss on the road against Auburn. With Florida’s perfect season ruined, the Gators turned their direction to Jacksonville, to play against hated rivals, the Georgia Bulldogs on Oct. 30, 1993.
Two historic programs in college football will meet once again along the Saint Johns River at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Oct. 28. The Florida Gators and the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs have been playing this cross-state football rivalry game for more than 100 years. However, what if it wasn’t the Gators against the Bulldogs? What if it was a gator against a bulldog?
Despite the season-opening defeat, Florida is now 5-2 and 3-1 in the SEC. Napier secured his first win against an AP Top 25 SEC opponent when UF defeated the then-No. 11 Tennessee Volunteers 29-16 Sept. 16.
On any given Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in 1990s Chatsworth, Georgia, Kurt Napier and his family would gather around the TV to watch Southeastern Conference teams duke it out on CBS. To them, football was tradition. The SEC in some parts of their northern Georgia town was religious. No one would’ve imagined that on that same television, 30 years from those moments, someone in the family would have an impact on what they saw on Saturdays.
The battle on the gridiron between Florida and Georgia draws the most attention among fans of the rivalry. However, there is a deep-rooted history on the diamond few fans consider when discussing the rivalry between the two schools.
Florida-Georgia is a rivalry of era-defining coaches. Vince Dooley dominated the Gators in the 1980s, and Steve Spurrier flipped the series with an 11-1 record against the Dogs. Urban Meyer kept the dominance alive in the late 2000s with five wins against Georgia in six years.
The Florida Gators (6-5-5, 2-4-3 SEC) drew with the Vanderbilt Commodores (8-4-5, 3-4-2 SEC) 3-3 Sunday afternoon in Nashville, Tennessee. The Gators narrowly escaped with the draw after Hinnekamp’s late score in response to a Vanderbilt offensive push.
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